Anonymous
8/18/2025, 12:37:01 PM No.213786775
Just saw this yesterday and I was so close to calling it a masterpiece, up until the second half. Hideaki Anno's style just oozes out of this movie and it's not even subtle. The entire plot is basically that episode of Evangelion where the city bands together to power a giant positron rifle to defeat an Angel, only in this case it's Godzilla and expands upon the setbacks, drama, and politics surrounding the situation.
Anno has this ability to make the most mundane of things look really, really cool. The set and costume design is on point and the shots used in the dialogue-heavy scenes have beautiful compositions while pacing them in a way that they don't drag on. Basically, all the Godzilla scenes and scenes surrounding them were fantastic. It isn't until ONE character is introduced that the movie goes south and Anno's experience in the anime industry is evident.
It's when Ms. Patterson, the half-Japanese American woman who has ambitions to be the president of the USA is introduced. I see where they were going for with her (she's basically the Asuka of the movie), but her actress couldn't sell her and I just cringed every time she was on the screen. In fact, everything that had to do with English, America, or hell even internationally was just not handled well. I don't even speak German and I could tell that the German acting was poor. It felt like a really bizarre decision to cast a Japanese national to play a Japanese-American who supposedly grew up in America and yet has this thick accent in both Japanese and English. It gets even worse when the Japanese guy starts adding random English into his dialogue, completely took me out of the movie.
I think the movie is still worth checking out for everything else it has to offer, but I really wish I could say that I loved this movie in its entirety. Still, it made me want to check out Anno's Shin Kamen Rider, finish the newest Gundam series he worked on, and watch some older Godzilla films I haven't seen yet.
Anno has this ability to make the most mundane of things look really, really cool. The set and costume design is on point and the shots used in the dialogue-heavy scenes have beautiful compositions while pacing them in a way that they don't drag on. Basically, all the Godzilla scenes and scenes surrounding them were fantastic. It isn't until ONE character is introduced that the movie goes south and Anno's experience in the anime industry is evident.
It's when Ms. Patterson, the half-Japanese American woman who has ambitions to be the president of the USA is introduced. I see where they were going for with her (she's basically the Asuka of the movie), but her actress couldn't sell her and I just cringed every time she was on the screen. In fact, everything that had to do with English, America, or hell even internationally was just not handled well. I don't even speak German and I could tell that the German acting was poor. It felt like a really bizarre decision to cast a Japanese national to play a Japanese-American who supposedly grew up in America and yet has this thick accent in both Japanese and English. It gets even worse when the Japanese guy starts adding random English into his dialogue, completely took me out of the movie.
I think the movie is still worth checking out for everything else it has to offer, but I really wish I could say that I loved this movie in its entirety. Still, it made me want to check out Anno's Shin Kamen Rider, finish the newest Gundam series he worked on, and watch some older Godzilla films I haven't seen yet.
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